SMITH, Frank Bailey, physician and surgeon, Washington, was born in Columbus, Ga., January 3, 1848, son of Benonie and Mary Anna (Bailey) Smith. His grandparents were of English and Scotch ancestry of worthy lineage. Feeble health in early life prevented his attending school. Later however he attended private schools, and still later, public schools, after which he took an academic course under the private instruction of Professor Hall. He studied medicine for three years with Dr. Wm. A. Lewis of Moosup, Conn., and one year with Dr. F. S. Abbott, a prominent surgeon of Norwich, Conn. He then took a medical course at the University of Vermont, after which he graduated from the University of New York City in 1873. He is of the Baptist faith and a member of that church.  He is an active temperance worker, and was an ardent advocate for constitutional prohibition in Rhode Island. He was formerly a Republican, but when the Republican Legislature and Republican party advocated and voted for the repeal of constitutional prohibition, he left their ranks and has been an earnest worker in the Prohibition party ever since, and is now a member of the Prohibition State Central Committee. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and an active member of the Order of United American Mechanics. He is a strong woman suffragist, and a member of the state association championing the cause. He is also a member of the Women's Suffrage League of his own town. He is a member of the Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and one of the executive board. He is in fact a moral reformer in general. He is a member of the Rhode Island Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He began the practice of medicine in Greene, R. I. Six years later he married Miss Evangeline H., daughter of Dr. Allen Tillinghast, of Washington, R. I. After the death of the Utter he succeeded him in practice at Washington, where he is still residing and doing a large and successful business. He has no children.

Source: Rhode Island Men in Progress - Submitted by Cathy Schultz